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jdpedrie··on Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises
You can use their CLI and registry for free. I agree that their paid offerings are crazy expensive, but it's simple to just commit your protos in your monorepo (or a proto repo), install buf, create buf.gen.yaml with a few language plugins, and you're up and running. All the pain of protoc is handled. It's been a massive improvement in usability since they came along.
jdpedrie··on My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
> The government mandates that cars get safer every year and fatalities are down 78% from the 1960s. Whenever government regulates things to benefit people, people tend to benefit.

On some metrics. On affordability, new cars are considerably more expensive. Whether that's a worthwhile tradeoff is beside the point. The GP's point is that there's no free lunch, and your example doesn't address that.

jdpedrie··on An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review
They did not. The rep told me to return it and buy another. :/
jdpedrie··on An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review
Funny, I just bought one of these last week. Agree with the article. Mine came with storage and Debian preinstalled. If you buy one from Amazon, keep an eye on price. I bought, then the next day the price dropped $150. Ordered another one and returned the expensive order.
jdpedrie··on Qwen3-Max-Thinking
> I can probably bring up a hundred topics that our AIs in EU in US refuse to approach for the very same reason.

So do it.

jdpedrie··on How to think about durable execution
Those sort of flaky or non-deterministic steps are written as activities, not as part of the deterministic workflow. The orchestrator will retry the non-deterministic activity until it gets a usable output (expected error, success), and record the activity output. If the workflow replays (i.e. worker crash), that recorded output of the activity will be returned instead of executing the activity again.
jdpedrie··on Mullvad Leta
Brave has a subscription tier that offers storage rights. But it's ~9x the cost of their normal Pro subscription. I have a hard time imagining that the cost works out in their favor (discounting the possibility of a special arrangement) with how long the query stream tail is in web search.
jdpedrie··on Libro: a command-line tool to track your books
Try a short story collection. Ten page chunks are easy to consume and you get to tell yourself you’re reading literature. It’s a good way to get back into reading on paper if you’ve been away and want to start small.
jdpedrie··on Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
What is “safe app”? Too generic to be googleable.
jdpedrie··on Plunk: The open source email platform
Because if you send marketing emails through SMTP, your delivery rate will be approximately 0.00%, or if you're leveraging a third party SMTP, they will ban you.
jdpedrie··on Welcome to Ladybird
"No 'default search deals'" doesn't sound like projecting, it sounds like a direct shot.
jdpedrie··on De-googling, so far
Fastmail lets you use custom domains for email and offers DNS and simple hosting.

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000280141-Ho...

Not affiliated, just a longtime customer and fastmail enjoyer.

jdpedrie··on Cups vs. grams: why can't American and British cooks agree on food measurements?
Sounds to me like what you meant to say is that your criteria for determining whether someone's profession is "serious" is whether they use metric or not.
jdpedrie··on Cups vs. grams: why can't American and British cooks agree on food measurements?
Every carpenter I’ve met uses sixteenths of an inch, and every metal worker uses thousandths.
jdpedrie··on Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
Is there a list anywhere of trustworthy sites for product reviews? The article mentioned Tech Gear Lab, and though I haven't heard of House Fresh, that seems reasonable? Consumer Reports of course, but are there others?
jdpedrie··on My PHP Problems
On the other hand, vanilla PHP effectively "hides" HTTP from the programmer. I taught myself PHP in middle school and high school as my first programming experience, and had no concept of a thing called "HTTP" for a very very long time. I knew the pieces of it that PHP gave me. I knew what $_POST, $_GET, $_SERVER, $_HEADER, set/getcookie(), were and how to manipulate them, and I knew the rules (setting a header after "echo" made it complain), but I didn't understand how that all hung together as a thing outside PHP called HTTP.

When I did learn about HTTP, it was very easy, since I already knew it without knowing I knew it, so maybe that's in favor of your point, but there's much to be said for the actual understanding that I didn't have at first. When I started interviewing people for PHP entry-level jobs, asking about HTTP was one of the ways I gauged how well applicants understood their work at a conceptual level.

jdpedrie··on ClickHouse Materialized Views for Fast Aggregation and Queries
Shown in the article but not called out specifically, I recommend avoiding implicit tables entirely when using clickhouse materialized views. We use clickhouse for similar purposes, and there are several cases where views are listening to tables populated by another view. So [table] "events" -> [view] "mv_events_to_view1" -> [table] "view1" -> [view] "mv_view1_to_view2" -> [table] "view2". If you use implicit tables, the 2nd view will never receive data.

This document provides a ton of great information if you're doing anything with materialized views in clickhouse: https://den-crane.github.io/Everything_you_should_know_about...

jdpedrie··on Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather
The differences are a) you don't lose notable range in cold weather (and your car continues to reliably tell you your remaining range), and b) there's always another gas station a block down.
jdpedrie··on Why decades of progress in cars' fuel efficiency is ending
Surely another reason is that automakers have shifted R&D investment from ICE to EV drive trains?
jdpedrie··on Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2024
> Muzzle, which automatically silences desktop notifs when you're screensharing https://muzzleapp.com/

Wow, the fake notifications on the landing page are really something lol.

jdpedrie··on Welcome to the ad-free internet
I'm interested in running Invidious on my NAS. The docs make it seem relatively resource-intensive. Any experience with that?
jdpedrie··on Email.radio – Free Email Domain for Licensed Ham Radio Operators
I've seen similar. In this case though, I'm only receiving so it's not a concern.
jdpedrie··on Email.radio – Free Email Domain for Licensed Ham Radio Operators
I recently setup a new domain with a wildcard forwarder (e.g. *@newdomain -> my real email). I hand out specific names to companies that want emails, and if they bug me I just blackhole that address.

It has worked well so far, though it might break down eventually if the domain gets spammed? Not sure.

Anyways, the domain I used has a 5-character TLD, and some sites have rejected it for that reason. Just a word of warning that >3 char TLDs might not be universally useful.

Those sites probably store passwords in plaintext too.

jdpedrie··on Show HN: Biblos – Semantic Bible Embedded Vector Search and Claude LLM
This is a good place to start: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-database/
jdpedrie··on Shell using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to convince kids fossil fuels are cool
Easy to say when it’s not your kids dying of starvation.
jdpedrie··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Glad to see such a range of views, all the way from labor unions to communist magazines!
jdpedrie··on Factorio: Space Age
You can disable enemies in the game setup, no mod required.
jdpedrie··on All of the vehicle license plates available in America
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
jdpedrie··on Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar
No, they don't. His photo doesn't support his silly claim at all. He highlights that the first ingredient is sugar, and that it says zero grams, but doesn't note the asterisk, which says "less than 0.5g". The tic tacs labeled "sugar free" use artificial sweetener.

I don't think any reasonable person would read those three pieces of information and assume that regular tic tacs are sugar free.

jdpedrie··on Launch HN: PeerDB (YC S23) – Fast, Native ETL/ELT for Postgres
Is an elasticsearch sink on the roadmap?
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